After having countless issues over the last few years with not being notified of new recruits signing up, I have decided to relax the spam countermeasures. From now on, users can register and activate their accounts on their own, with no requirement for manual intervention per-user on my part.

In addition, I have figured out how to apply the forum's default theme to anonymous visitors who are not logged in. Now there's no more boring grey/white/blue theme, so maybe we'll look a bit cooler from the outside.